It is now 10 years since I started blogging at Living Wittily. This past year or so I have posted less often. Partially that is due to the using of other media like Facebook for those serendipity, ad hoc, or immediate responses to news and events and circumstances. That has meant the blog has become more occasional and the pieces the more considered and intentionally thought provoking or for more developed engagement on things literary, theological and current affairs.
Several times I have wondered whther the effort is worth it, but only briefly. There have been many encouraging emails, comments and personal responses from regular visitors to Living Wittily. Amongst the losses of being engaged in Facebook is that more personal material tends to appear there instead of here. For much of that material that is right, as there are appropriate boundaries of what gets posted here, and indeed on Facebook. But I would like to return to more regular thinking by writing here, so those who regularly visit, there should be a more continuous conversation.
Amongst the enjoyments of my semi-retirement are my camera, my bicycle and more freedom to read beyond my own areas of specialism and necessity for teaching and preaching. I have come to enjoy the camera as a lens through which to observe the world, frame the world, consider the world, and in the deeper and more pentrating senses, to see the world. Here is a photo I took a year ago, and shared on Facebook. It is a good example of seeing Christ in the world of Creation. When I think of the great Logos hymn and the Colossian hymn, I imagine the cruciform shape of reality, that the God who is love, and whose love is cruciform, is the Creator of a world that is redeemed by love, sacriificial love that is eternal in intention and eternal in consequence.
This photo captures the reality that "all things were made through him", and "through him to reconcile all things, whether on heaven or on earth, making peace by the blood of the Cross". The old timbers of the breakwaters at Aberdeen beach were briefly exposed by the storms a year ago. Walking along the beach, at just the right angle the weathered timbers came into an alignment, at just the right angle of vision, for this photo. It is one of my favourite moments with my own camera – which is a modest Sony Cybershot, and can be surprisingly clever!
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